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Legend has it that the modern version of the MONOPOLY board game was invented during the Depression by an unemployed man named Charles Darrow. Rebuffed by the major game companies of the time, he published it himself--and it went on to become perhaps the world's most popular board game.
Now, in the 21st century, you can play the same classic game of MONOPOLY on your Kindle Fire. And it's a ton of fun.
Amass Your Fortune
So, do you like to buy Boardwalk and Park Place and hope to make it big on a few unlucky rolls by your opponent? Or is your strategy to go with the Green, Red, or Yellow properties and slowly bleed your adversaries dry? However you like to play MONOPOLY, you'll love playing the Android version.
Single-Player Fun
One of the great things about playing the digital version of MONOPOLY is that you don't have to track down someone willing to take you on--you can match your business acumen against the computer any time you feel like it. Set the AI opponent at three levels of difficulty, so you'll always get a challenge (or if you prefer, an easy win). Of course, it's much more fun to switch to Pass 'N Play mode, just so you can see your rivals' faces when you crush them.
Smooth, Intuitive Interface
This is quite simply a great-looking, well-designed app. Just pick your favorite piece, shake your device to roll the dice, and you're off. Tap the screen to zoom in and examine the details of any space or property. Turn the board with a quick swipe. Your money and properties are automatically tracked for you. All you need to do is scheme your way to economic domination.
The Game You Know and Love
There are also many options regarding your money, how many houses you need to buy to create a MONOPOLY, theme music, and more. Just set up the type of game you like to play and get to it.
Are you ready to become a real-estate tycoon? Aiming to be the next Bill Gates or Warren Buffett? Show everyone your true financial genius with MONOPOLY for Android.
End User License Agreement: http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/mobileeula/US/en/GM
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52 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
Here's the bottom line on the whole "doesn't download for my device" thing: Amazon previously provided "Kindle Fire Editions" and standard Android editions of this and many other apps. The Kindle Fire Edition seemed to differ only in that it included the large icon for the Kindle Fire's launcher, and it was restricted from download to any other device. The Kindle Fire was also prevented from downloading the standard Android edition, instead being forced to use the Kindle Fire Edition.
This splintered the market, and a lot of us who bought it for Kindle Fire were upset that we couldn't use this otherwise normal Android app for our other Android devices; The Kindle Fire is the only Android device that sought to lock people into device-specific versions of commonly-available apps.
I see now that Amazon has changed this policy, and have integrated many of these apps back into a solitary Android version that will work on the Kindle Fire. I applaud this choice (partially because I was able to download the app I paid for when I had a Kindle Fire, and use it on my other Android devices finally). It's good that Amazon saw the problem and decided not to fragment the Android market or lock Kindle Fire owners into specific Kindle Fire Editions of these apps.
So you can cease all the whining about people "not reading" the description; Those comments are from BEFORE the app was re-integrated into a single Android-friendly edition. Both Kindle Fire and standard Android devices can use this app now, when before, the could not.
And if you're a Kindle Fire owner and don't see what the big deal is about having to download Android apps that are tailored to your specific device, then you don't understand the point of Android. You should be able to purchase Android apps and use them on any capable (powerful enough) Android device you own. Making you buy Kindle Fire Editions was locking you into Kindle Fire as the only Android device you could use those apps on, and that's not very "Android" of them.
So kudos to Amazon and EA for ending that ridiculous split in their apps. Even though Monopoly is a four-star game (the AI cheats, the dice rolls always seem to favor the AI not landing on your properties), I'm granting an extra star in this review to thank EA and Amazon for making it a universal Android app, and cutting out that "Kindle Fire Edition" stuff. Well done!
This splintered the market, and a lot of us who bought it for Kindle Fire were upset that we couldn't use this otherwise normal Android app for our other Android devices; The Kindle Fire is the only Android device that sought to lock people into device-specific versions of commonly-available apps.
I see now that Amazon has changed this policy, and have integrated many of these apps back into a solitary Android version that will work on the Kindle Fire. I applaud this choice (partially because I was able to download the app I paid for when I had a Kindle Fire, and use it on my other Android devices finally). It's good that Amazon saw the problem and decided not to fragment the Android market or lock Kindle Fire owners into specific Kindle Fire Editions of these apps.
So you can cease all the whining about people "not reading" the description; Those comments are from BEFORE the app was re-integrated into a single Android-friendly edition. Both Kindle Fire and standard Android devices can use this app now, when before, the could not.
And if you're a Kindle Fire owner and don't see what the big deal is about having to download Android apps that are tailored to your specific device, then you don't understand the point of Android. You should be able to purchase Android apps and use them on any capable (powerful enough) Android device you own. Making you buy Kindle Fire Editions was locking you into Kindle Fire as the only Android device you could use those apps on, and that's not very "Android" of them.
So kudos to Amazon and EA for ending that ridiculous split in their apps. Even though Monopoly is a four-star game (the AI cheats, the dice rolls always seem to favor the AI not landing on your properties), I'm granting an extra star in this review to thank EA and Amazon for making it a universal Android app, and cutting out that "Kindle Fire Edition" stuff. Well done!
34 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
This game is a joke. It's buggy, glitchy, the house rules are missing too many options, and most frustratingly, when you play against the computer (AI) the laws of probability go right out the window.
First, the game issues. A lot of the 'house rules' I got used to playing with over the years (e.g., the money pool in the center of the board from Community Chest and Chance, which you win by landing on Free Parking; bonuses for rolling 2 or 12) are missing from this game, and the ones that are there don't give you much to work with. "Luxury Tax" is $100 where it should be $75; "Income Tax" is $200 where it should be "10% or $200"; the latter is a big problem when you're low on cash. There's no option to prevent a player from collecting rent while in Jail, which kind of defeats the purpose of Jail once most of the properties are owned. [UPDATE: I gather that some of these rules are actually standard to the game, even though they don't reflect how I played it growing up. I imagine, like most people, I never actually read the rules and just played according to what I was taught by whomever I played with. I remember this conversation on "The Sopranos"....]
Next, the technical issues. (N.B.: I'm playing on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.) The "manage" mode is frustrating to work with because scrolling through the board is slow, tedious and time-consuming, and the touch screen is not always responsive. The animation of game pieces moving along the board is also slow; even though there's a 'button' to accelerate it, it can still be tedious waiting for a piece to go around the board when a player rolls a high number, or gets a CC/Chance "Advance to..." card sending it almost all the way around. You can't set a default game piece for yourself; if you want the race car (which in my experience just about everyone does), you have to set it manually every time because the race car is the default game piece for the AI. You have to set the language (e.g., "English U.S.") -every- time you launch the application. The worst of the technical problems is the "trade" screen, where the touch interface simply does not line up with the card images on the screen, and you literally have to guess where to touch the screen to bring up the card you want, and it often takes numerous tries.
Finally, this brings me to the biggest problem I have with this game, which is the absolutely ridiculous luck that the computer (AI) player has with the dice. Granted, in a game like this, players will always perceive to some degree that their opponent has better luck with the dice (or other luck-based game elements, like the letter draw in Scrabble), but in this case the difference is actually measurable. I tracked the rolls of the dice over three games and found that the AI got a "favorable" roll (e.g., landing between or bypassing my built-up properties, landing on Go or Free Parking, drawing a favorable CC/Chance card, landing on a property it could buy to compete its own monopoly or block mine, etc.) a staggering 81% of the time, whereas I rolled favorably only 47% of the time. And I only kept track like that because I sensed the trend in about four previous games.
Game after game after game, you'll watch helplessly as the AI player lands comfortably between or beyond your properties, houses and hotels, over and over again, no matter how many you have or which ones they are, picking up cash from CC/Chance cards or landing on Go and Free Parking, while you (the human player) repeatedly miss the properties you want, draw CC/Chance cards that -lose- money, land on the AI's properties, land on Luxury Tax and Income Tax, go to jail, etc., and as soon as the AI puts 3 houses or more on any of its properties, you will land on it immediately and get wiped out.
I played one game just today where I had four monopolies (brown, orange, red and yellow) and all four railroads, while the AI had only one -- Boardwalk and Park Place. As I was putting up houses and hotels all over the board, the AI went around the board -eight- -times- without landing on -any- of my properties, picking up tons of cash from CC, Chance, Free Parking and Go, while I barely managed to break even, and as soon as AI had 4 houses on each, I landed on Park Place right away and got wiped out. While it's true that this can and often does happen in Monopoly, this is how -every- -game- has gone. No matter how many properties, monopolies or buildings I have, and no matter how passive or aggressive I am with trading, the AI's absurd and disproportionate luck with the dice decides the game.
I realize how ridiculous it is to complain about the computer "cheating" like this, there is certainly more to Monopoly than the luck-of-the-dice, and it is after all just a game. But when the luck-of-the-dice is this lopsided, game after game after game, there has to be something wrong with the randomization algorithm.
So, a word of advice: If you get this game, don't play against the computer. You might destroy your device. :)
UPDATE: I read some of the other reviews here after posting this, and was astonished (and somewhat relieved) at how many other users have noticed the "loaded dice" and experienced similar patterns in gameplay to those I've described (especially AI opponent landing between/beyond user's properties time after time). This is an alarming problem, because it makes the solo game essentially unplayable; what's the point of acquiring and building on properties (i.e., the object of the game) if you know the opponent is practically never going to land on them?
UPDATE 2: I've reached the conclusion that this game (player vs. AI) is impossible to win unless you are able to prevent the AI from getting -any- color-card monopolies. No matter how many monopolies you have, if AI gets -one-, AI will win; if it's Baltic and Mediterranean, you might have a chance but it might just take longer. AI will bypass your properties repeatedly while you land on its hotels repeatedly until you're broke.
UPDATE 3: The way to win is to offset the loaded dice by taking advantage of the AI's willingness to trade properties for cash, and to a lesser extent, color-card properties for utilities and railroads. If AI gets two of a three-property set with the third still available, buy or trade for one of them. If AI lands on Boardwalk or Park Place and buys it, immediately offer to buy it for $50 above face value. Note that even as you place houses and hotels all over the board, the AI will rack up enough cash from Chance/CC, Free Parking, landing on Go, etc. to prolong the game, but it will eventually start landing on your properties; as long as AI has no houses or hotels, you should eventually win.
First, the game issues. A lot of the 'house rules' I got used to playing with over the years (e.g., the money pool in the center of the board from Community Chest and Chance, which you win by landing on Free Parking; bonuses for rolling 2 or 12) are missing from this game, and the ones that are there don't give you much to work with. "Luxury Tax" is $100 where it should be $75; "Income Tax" is $200 where it should be "10% or $200"; the latter is a big problem when you're low on cash. There's no option to prevent a player from collecting rent while in Jail, which kind of defeats the purpose of Jail once most of the properties are owned. [UPDATE: I gather that some of these rules are actually standard to the game, even though they don't reflect how I played it growing up. I imagine, like most people, I never actually read the rules and just played according to what I was taught by whomever I played with. I remember this conversation on "The Sopranos"....]
Next, the technical issues. (N.B.: I'm playing on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.) The "manage" mode is frustrating to work with because scrolling through the board is slow, tedious and time-consuming, and the touch screen is not always responsive. The animation of game pieces moving along the board is also slow; even though there's a 'button' to accelerate it, it can still be tedious waiting for a piece to go around the board when a player rolls a high number, or gets a CC/Chance "Advance to..." card sending it almost all the way around. You can't set a default game piece for yourself; if you want the race car (which in my experience just about everyone does), you have to set it manually every time because the race car is the default game piece for the AI. You have to set the language (e.g., "English U.S.") -every- time you launch the application. The worst of the technical problems is the "trade" screen, where the touch interface simply does not line up with the card images on the screen, and you literally have to guess where to touch the screen to bring up the card you want, and it often takes numerous tries.
Finally, this brings me to the biggest problem I have with this game, which is the absolutely ridiculous luck that the computer (AI) player has with the dice. Granted, in a game like this, players will always perceive to some degree that their opponent has better luck with the dice (or other luck-based game elements, like the letter draw in Scrabble), but in this case the difference is actually measurable. I tracked the rolls of the dice over three games and found that the AI got a "favorable" roll (e.g., landing between or bypassing my built-up properties, landing on Go or Free Parking, drawing a favorable CC/Chance card, landing on a property it could buy to compete its own monopoly or block mine, etc.) a staggering 81% of the time, whereas I rolled favorably only 47% of the time. And I only kept track like that because I sensed the trend in about four previous games.
Game after game after game, you'll watch helplessly as the AI player lands comfortably between or beyond your properties, houses and hotels, over and over again, no matter how many you have or which ones they are, picking up cash from CC/Chance cards or landing on Go and Free Parking, while you (the human player) repeatedly miss the properties you want, draw CC/Chance cards that -lose- money, land on the AI's properties, land on Luxury Tax and Income Tax, go to jail, etc., and as soon as the AI puts 3 houses or more on any of its properties, you will land on it immediately and get wiped out.
I played one game just today where I had four monopolies (brown, orange, red and yellow) and all four railroads, while the AI had only one -- Boardwalk and Park Place. As I was putting up houses and hotels all over the board, the AI went around the board -eight- -times- without landing on -any- of my properties, picking up tons of cash from CC, Chance, Free Parking and Go, while I barely managed to break even, and as soon as AI had 4 houses on each, I landed on Park Place right away and got wiped out. While it's true that this can and often does happen in Monopoly, this is how -every- -game- has gone. No matter how many properties, monopolies or buildings I have, and no matter how passive or aggressive I am with trading, the AI's absurd and disproportionate luck with the dice decides the game.
I realize how ridiculous it is to complain about the computer "cheating" like this, there is certainly more to Monopoly than the luck-of-the-dice, and it is after all just a game. But when the luck-of-the-dice is this lopsided, game after game after game, there has to be something wrong with the randomization algorithm.
So, a word of advice: If you get this game, don't play against the computer. You might destroy your device. :)
UPDATE: I read some of the other reviews here after posting this, and was astonished (and somewhat relieved) at how many other users have noticed the "loaded dice" and experienced similar patterns in gameplay to those I've described (especially AI opponent landing between/beyond user's properties time after time). This is an alarming problem, because it makes the solo game essentially unplayable; what's the point of acquiring and building on properties (i.e., the object of the game) if you know the opponent is practically never going to land on them?
UPDATE 2: I've reached the conclusion that this game (player vs. AI) is impossible to win unless you are able to prevent the AI from getting -any- color-card monopolies. No matter how many monopolies you have, if AI gets -one-, AI will win; if it's Baltic and Mediterranean, you might have a chance but it might just take longer. AI will bypass your properties repeatedly while you land on its hotels repeatedly until you're broke.
UPDATE 3: The way to win is to offset the loaded dice by taking advantage of the AI's willingness to trade properties for cash, and to a lesser extent, color-card properties for utilities and railroads. If AI gets two of a three-property set with the third still available, buy or trade for one of them. If AI lands on Boardwalk or Park Place and buys it, immediately offer to buy it for $50 above face value. Note that even as you place houses and hotels all over the board, the AI will rack up enough cash from Chance/CC, Free Parking, landing on Go, etc. to prolong the game, but it will eventually start landing on your properties; as long as AI has no houses or hotels, you should eventually win.
21 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
It looks great and plays well, but is buggy. For instance, the trading window is a disaster, with cropped cards, reversed players, etc. The press area for rolling the dice is actually located above the button. With some bug fixes it could be great.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Crashes often Droid 2
I'm glad I bought this game while it was on sale, but I regret ever buying it at all. It crashes every 2 minutes. Read more
Published 6 hours ago by Vel
hangs and freezes phone
game often freezes my HTC inspire phone. I had to remove battery to hard boot the phone. if it doesn't freeze the device, it hangs. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Boib Halim
Great for car rides!
This app is a great substitute for the board game. Yes, it may need a little bit of work, but the overall outcome is great. Me and my family had a blast playing this.
Published 1 day ago by Robert Serro
Great
Works great on my Droid X and KF. No bugs or glitches noticed. Recommend those reporting issues upgrade the device they are using.
Published 1 day ago by Michael J. Marks
buyer beware
Very favorable dice for AI. If AI gets 1 monopoly you will lose. Glad i got it through free app of the day. Otherwise its pretty good.
Published 2 days ago by flybynht
The game blatantly cheats which makes the game no fun.
I have owned and played this Monopoly game for month's and it is blatantly obvious that it makes no
attempt at playing fair. Read more
attempt at playing fair. Read more
Published 2 days ago by J. Branche
Love Monopoly, hate this game
I love Monopoly, yet this game is terrible.
First, it constantly crashes my android operating system. Read more
First, it constantly crashes my android operating system. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Nate
so confusing!
I love monopoly, but this was horrible! it is not worth the money and does not explain everything, there was a tutorial at the begining, but they left out a bunch of stuff. Read more
Published 3 days ago by S.Wenzel
Awesome!
I love this app. Had it on my old Windows Mobile phone, and am glad it works just as good, even better on my New HTC Vivid/Holiday.
Published 4 days ago by Shadow
I downloaded this on my $79 Kindle and it won't let me Play!
I Paid 4.99 for this App for my $79 Kindle and It won't let me Play it! It just shows me the Instructions how to play! It should've said which Kindle you could play it on. Read more
Published 4 days ago by bettyboop91_112000
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